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      *Lionsgate has taken the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to its relationship with filmmaker Tyler Perry. After successful productions of his first two films, the studio made a deal to release the playwright/director’s next two movies, “Why Did I Get Married” and “Jazz Man’s Blues.”     

      Perry said of the venture: "Lionsgate is my family, the home for all my movies and videos. And they've given me exactly what you want in a home: a supportive environment and the room to grow."      

      The two new films will mark the fourth and fifth motion pictures in Lionsgate's Perry franchise following “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” “Madea’s Family Reunion” and the upcoming “Daddy’s Little Girls,” which opens on Valentine’s Day 2007 and will have its world premiere the day before at the newly launched Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.     

      "Tyler has achieved so much in a short period of time, and we look forward to celebrating yet more successes with him," Lionsgate president of production Michael Paseornek said.      

      "Why Did I Get Married" will be the big-screen adaptation of Perry's stage play about the trials of marriage, and what happens to one family when a sexy young temptress arrives on the scene.      

      Set in the post-World War II South, “Jazz Man’s Blues” is about a young black jazz singer who leaves his rural town in search of fame. During his absence, it's discovered that he had an affair with a local married woman. But all is not as it seems: the woman is actually his former lover and a light skinned black who has been passing as white. Her racist husband has no idea about her color or her past, and organizes the local Klan chapter to hunt down the jazz singer. Now a successful performer in Chicago, the jazz singer finds himself drawn back South to help save his mother's ailing nightclub and face his accusers.